This KS3 History quiz is about the First World War. The first two months of the war involved large movements of troops with battles being fought in Belgium and France. During the rest of 1914, the opposing armies dug in. They created systems of trenches close to the front line, often just a few tens of metres apart. Behind the front line trenches were a network of other trenches to allow the soldiers to move around. There were also underground shelters where they could sleep in reasonable safety when they were not on duty at the front. In order to attack the Germans, the troops went over the top - in other words, they climbed out of the trench and advanced across no man's land.
In 1915, there was a stalemate when neither side gained or lost much territory. Britain tried to break this by attempting to open a second front in Turkey at Gallipoli. This failed and cost the lives of tens of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders. During the period of 1916 to 1918, it was a war of attrition. Each side threw huge numbers of soldiers into battle to try to wear down the other armies. The battles of this part of the war lasted months and claimed the lives of millions of men. Perhaps the most famous of these was the Battle of the Somme.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - World War One
Chlorine is a green coloured gas that is very acidic as well as being poisonous
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The Turkish soldiers had good positions high on the slopes above the beaches at Gallipoli. The attacking forces had no chance of success
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51 VCs were won by British soldiers, 17 posthumously
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The idea was to weaken the German defences at Verdun so that the French army could break through
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The more experienced soldiers often went first as they knew that they would have a few seconds to find some cover in a shell hole in no man's land before the Germans reacted and started firing at them
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The ANZAC forces: Australia and N.Z. Army Corps
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Over one million men were killed in this battle alone
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Allies retreated but Germans failed to break through
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It was introduced in 1916 because the army needed to replace the men that had been killed
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Unterseeboot - German for 'undersea boat'
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